Year 15 of the Crisis Era

Seven years after Say's large-scale infrastructure project was carried out, Ray Diaz and Hines were awakened from hibernation at the same time. They were told by the PDC that the computer technology they were waiting for had appeared.

"So fast?" Ray Diaz and Hines were surprised when they learned that only 11 years had passed before the mainframe computer project achieved a breakthrough. [Note]

They were then told that due to the unprecedented large investment, technological progress in recent years has indeed been rapid, and a large number of breakthroughs have been made in many aspects.

But there is nothing to be optimistic about. Humans are just accelerating the final distance between them and the sophon barrier.

What is progressing is only applied science, while cutting-edge physics is stagnant like a pool of stagnant water.

The reserve of human theory is being exhausted, and technological progress will slow down until it stops completely, but it is still unclear when the end of technology will appear.

A few days after waking up from hibernation, Hines was taken to a building that looked like a gymnasium. The interior of the building was shrouded in a misty white mist.

"Hello, Dr. Hines, welcome to Project 127." In the building, he saw a person he never dreamed of, that is PDC Chairman Say.

"Chairman Say, what do you want from me?" Hines asked.

"Regarding large-scale computers, the two of us have a common language, because my large-scale infrastructure plan also has certain needs for supercomputers."

"Convert the previous software simulation into hardware, use a microprocessor to simulate a neuron, all microprocessors are interconnected, and the connection mode can be changed dynamically."

"How to simulate it?"

"The PDC and I came up with a crazy idea to simulate the human brain in an almost barbaric way."

"The number of microprocessors required to build such a simulated brain is probably equivalent to the total number of microprocessors ever produced by mankind, right?" Hines said with emotion.

"I woke up once in the 8th year of the Crisis Era, but half a year later I went into hibernation again. This time I woke up last year, so I did some research on supercomputers."

"The quantum computer project was the first to be discontinued. Existing physical theories could not provide sufficient support. The research hit the wall of sophons. Biological computers followed closely. They said it was just a science fiction."

The Big Infrastructure Project was also used to provide microprocessors, which in turn served as a cover to confuse the Trisolarans and prevent ETO from discovering that they were interested in Hines's plan.

"Your plan is really grand, just like the Fourth Agricultural Revolution before it, it will swallow up mountains and rivers." Hines took a deep breath and sighed.

He can now imagine that countless chip factories and electronic industrial zones have been built under Sai's plan. The daily production of electronic products by humans is estimated to be more than the total before the Crisis Era.

"The computer that finally stopped was the non-Fon structure computer. This structure is actually a simulation of the human brain. The scientists explained a lot to me, but the final meaning was that it couldn't work."

"Yes, thank you very much." Hines said sincerely. Sai was kind to him. First he found out his own wall-breaker, and now he helped him develop the supercomputer needed for the brain analyzer.

"Speaking of which, not long after you hibernated, six new-generation supercomputer research projects started at the same time, three of which were traditional structures, one was non-Von structure, and the other two were quantum computers and biomolecular computers.

project."

"I plan to build the Internet of Things, so I need a huge amount of electronic components and chips to be placed in every corner." Say explained.

"Don't talk about it for now. Look here. This is one of the fifty simulated brain assembly workshops planned. Originally, PDC only planned to build thirty, but I persuaded PDC to raise the number to fifty."

To be honest, you and Ray Diaz have to thank me for this, otherwise it would not be easy for humans to create so many chips, and the difficulty of passing this simulated brain project will also increase a lot." Sai joked.

Hearing this, Hines couldn't help but become curious: "So how did you solve this problem this year?"

"In the end, only three traditional architecture computer projects were still in operation, but there was no progress for a long time. Even when I woke up last year, there was no progress."

"What?!" Hines was surprised after hearing this. He was a little curious about what Say's plan was doing, that it actually required so many chips.

"Yes, use resources to solve the problem." Sai nodded.

"But when I proposed the big infrastructure plan, the chief scientists of these six projects all told me that the computing power you, Mr. Rey Diaz or I want is impossible to achieve."

"This is the only one that has been completed so far. The remaining forty or so simulated brains are still being built. Of course, not all of them will be given to you. I need a few to use in my plan."

"This can be considered a gift from me to you. This supercomputer was finally completed last month. Its performance is 10,000 times that of the most powerful computer you had before hibernation."

"I haven't counted it, but it's definitely not that many, because the nine major council members told me that even if it takes hundreds of billions of chips to build a simulated brain, it's just a leftover from the number of chips used in the big infrastructure plan." Say.

road.

It took Hines a moment to understand what Say meant: "You mean, make a hundred billion of these microprocessors to build a simulated brain?"

"Traditional structure?"

"Of course it's okay." Hines said quickly. Without Say's help, who knows when the supercomputer would be able to meet his needs.

"Oh, I forgot that when you proposed the big infrastructure plan and smart city, you were already hibernating." Looking at Hines, who looked confused, Say explained.

"It's a traditional structure. It's possible to squeeze so much juice out of the lemon that is Moore's Law. The computer science community is surprised, but this time it's probably coming to an end."

After Keiko Yamasugi was arrested, in order to allow Hines to produce the ideological stamp as soon as possible, Sai got involved in supercomputer research in the 8th year of the Crisis Era.

"So Chairman Say, when did you end hibernation?" Hines asked, and the other person seemed to be a little older.

Hines knew that this was an unprecedented computer, and that if humans failed, it would never be possible.

"By the way, doctor, do you have any idea about the number of hundreds of billions?" Say interrupted Hines's meditation.

"Why do you ask?" Hines asked doubtfully.

"Because the surrounding fog is made up of 100 billion microprocessors, and we are now in the holographic display of this supercomputer."

Note: The original work is 8 years old, but in the original work Ray Diaz and Hines started hibernating in the 12th year of the Crisis Era, and the animation seems to have started hibernating in the 4th year of the Crisis Era.
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